Most independent estate agencies are planning to go back to “normal” office-based work as soon as it’s safe, according to a survey by The Guild of Property Professionals – but a significant proportion are considering alternative set-ups…

Savills has surveyed 50 of its top people in property markets around the world to gauge levels of buyer and seller pessimism and positivity, and assess how the Coronavirus pandemic is changing the residential real estate sector.

Buyers are not responding to the Covid-19 crisis in the same way as to the 2008 global financial crash or to 2016’s Stamp Duty changes, says Knight Frank’s Priya Black, who heads up the Baker Street New Homes department. In this interview with PrimeResi, Black shares her views on how the current market will play out, and what long-term effects the lockdown could have on the business of estate agency…

After a month in lockdown, Moreas Madani remains upbeat about the property market. “We are beginning to see some green shoots”, says the partner in Knight Frank’s Prime Central London Developments team and the agency’s Middle East Global Wealth Ambassador; some deals are still going through remotely, and his team has not lost a single existing sale to the pandemic. PrimeResi caught up with Madani to find out what’s happening in the market, and to look ahead to how the property industry might change in the long term as a result.